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State: California Confederate flag ban excludes individuals
Associated Press ^ | May 2, 2017 9:12 PM EDT | Don Thompson

Posted on 05/02/2017 7:40:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai

California’s ban on displaying the Confederate flag doesn’t apply to individuals even if they are on government property, state officials said this week in settling a free speech lawsuit.

Fresno artist Timothy Desmond sued after his painting depicting the flag was barred from the 2015 Big Fresno Fair. His painting shows Confederate soldiers fighting in the 1864 siege of Atlanta, led by a soldier carrying the battle flag.

California’s 2014 law says the state cannot display or sell the Battle Flag of the Confederacy or any similar image unless it appears in a way that serves an educational or historical purpose. Fair officials used that law to ban Desmond’s painting a year later, but they let him display the painting during the 2016 fair.

The settlement signed by the state attorney general’s office on Monday says that the ban applies only to the state government and not to private individuals. Individuals are still free to carry, display or sell the flag on private or government property. …

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: battleflag; confederateflag; dixie; governormoonbeam; lofan

1 posted on 05/02/2017 7:40:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

To be consistent shouldn’t they also BAN the Political Party that made up the Confederates and Slave owners of the South???


2 posted on 05/02/2017 7:47:13 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: eyeamok

But then they will turn around and not ban individual identification with same.


3 posted on 05/02/2017 7:52:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
"The First Amendment is clear: the state may not ban the expression of certain points of view simply because some find them distasteful," Center for Individual Rights President Terry Pell said in a statement Tuesday. "Freedom of speech has costs, whether in the form of hurt feelings of those who are forced to listen or the cost of police necessary to protect against the riots that sometimes result."

what certain points of view can be banned ?
4 posted on 05/02/2017 9:19:18 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: eyeamok

How bout any bans on mex flag on cinco de mayo?


5 posted on 05/02/2017 9:21:01 PM PDT by thinden
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To: stylin19a

That Pell fellow is suspect. Used to be a civil rights assistant secretary in the Department of Education. Whatever anti-big-government initiatives the CIR used to have would certainly be undermined by him.


6 posted on 05/02/2017 9:29:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

How is such “law” even legal?


7 posted on 05/02/2017 10:03:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: stylin19a

The state of California has ignored the First Amendment for conservatives for decades so why is anyone surprised about the Confederate flag issue?


8 posted on 05/02/2017 10:45:07 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: stylin19a

I think the state was arguing that certain points of view can be banned, the judge was saying no they can’t. I don’t read that as an implication that some can be.


9 posted on 05/03/2017 3:06:56 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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